Part II. now ready. 



A HISTORY 



OF 



BRITISH BIRDS, 



WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR EGGS. 

 BY HENRY SEEBOHM. 



THIS Work is intended to form Three Royal Octavo Volumes, of about 

 600 pages each, and will be published in Six Parts, at 1 Is. each. 

 Subscribers on commencing their Subscription must give an undertaking 

 to continue it till the work is finished. 



It is the Author's intention to issue a Part every Six Months. The 

 work will be illustrated with between sixty and seventy Coloured Plates, 

 including all the known Eggs of British Birds, with some of their most 

 striking varieties ; and the Eggs of several species will now be figured for 

 the first time. 



" Mr. Seebohin's work will be known to most of our readers already ; but the com- 

 mencement of such an undertaking should not pass unchronicled in the pages of ' The Ibis.' 

 Oology, it is true, as Mr. Seebohm tells us in his prospectus, has been much neglected of 

 late years at all events the scientific aspect of it ; and Hewitson's works being out of print 

 and out of date, it was quite time that another British Oology should take its place. . . . 

 As his friends are well aware, no one is more competent, .... from his unrivalled personal 

 experiences in almost every part of the western palaearctic region." The Ibis. 



almost have been executed by hand ; and the book is written in an easy, pleasant style, 

 redolent of the field rather than of the study. What more can we desire? Mr. Seebohm 'a 

 pictures of their eggs can hardly be surpassed." Saturday Review. 



" The text contains not only a description of each egg and its varieties, but also a very 



full account of the life-history of each bird If we may conceive the works of 



Yarrell and Hewitson rolled into one, with corrections, emendations, and important 

 additions, and with woodcuts as well as coloured plates, such a work will be Mr. Seebohm 'a 

 when completed." Zoologist. 



"To those who imagine that British Ornithology is worked out, and that there is 

 nothing left to do in this well-worn field, we commend the study of the present book, as 



presenting us with a delightfully fresh view of an old and familiar subject We 



must regret that we have not space to give extracts from the many charming accounts of 

 the habits of our English birds of ])rey, which have certainly not been surpassed by any 



modern writer We unhesitatingly express our opinion that since the time of 



Macgillivray no such original book as Mr. Seebohm's has been published on British 

 Ornithology, and, in spite of a few less satisfactory illustrations, we think that the figures 

 of the eggs are by far the best that have yet been given.'' Nature. 



A Prospectus and Specimen Plate sent on application. 



LONDON : R. H. PORTER, 6 TENTERDEN STREET, W. 



